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Originally Posted by Regulus Tera
It's a fucking PS3; there should be no memory issues.Also, FFXII did it before.
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The PS3 is still a piece of hardware, you know. Everything has limits. Everything it does takes memory. The thing only has half a Gig of RAM, and half of that is devoted exclusively to graphics. That's like Win98 with a Fatal1ty video card.
Also, 12 didn't have such large environments with so much going on in them, from what I've seen to compare. True, the playable area might be roughly the same, but 12 didn't render out as far outside of it. From a programmer's standpoint, the thing is more like Oblivion than FF12 in terms of resources and how they're being used, and have you ever TRIED the CM Partners mods? Your computer, unless you have some sort of alien technology, is guaranteed to become unstable at any more than 2-3 NPC partners, and will invariably crash at 7. And that's working with at least
8 times the PS3's main memory. Also, you have to consider that Oblivion really has very little going on in the background, so factor in a bunch of mods like Alive Waters, only also for a bunch of stuff on land. These additions alone will make even top-of-the-line computers scream. Now combine both of them and you'll find yourself with a burning box.
Please, RT. I know you feel like this is a step backwards. I wish the transitions were a bit more seamless, myself. But there are reasons for why it is the way it is, and why they had to scale it back that way.